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Ellen FinkelsteinMy goal is to help you succeed when you present by giving you knowledge. I'm passionate about turning Death by PowerPoint into Life by PowerPoint. You'll find free tips, techniques, articles, and tutorials here. At the E-store find books and courses to aid you in becoming a great presenter. On my About page, learn more about consulting, workshops, training, webinars, and coaching on presentation skills and PowerPoint.

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Speaking Pro Central

Speaking Pro Central

Improve your slide design by trying layout variations

In my “Create an Outstanding Presentation” workshops and self-study course, I teach four layouts that always look good. I taught them again recently in a presentation skills class for college students.

I find that many presenters who create their own slides struggle with slide design. Not being artists, their efforts are clunky. They usually know this, [...]

January 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Slide layout, Uncategorized | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%

Create a timeline/agenda in PresentationZen style

Olivia Mitchell, who writes the Speaking about Presenting recently wrote a blog entry, “How to do an agenda slide like Garr Reynolds.”

Here’s the presentation, which is posted on slideshare.net. The timeline/agenda is on slides 7 through 12.

Slides (in PDF) from Safari Webcast

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One of the comments on the Olivia’s blog was, ““It’s [...]

January 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Design principles, Uncategorized | %COMMENTS('Leave a comment', 'One comment', '% comments', 'Comments are closed')%